Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer, an Englishman who lived from about 1343 to 1400, worked mainly as a royal bureaucrat. No records document him receiving any payment or favors specifically for his poetry. As a member of the gentry participating on the margins of the English royal court, Chaucer appears to have written mainly for women. Irony, gynocentrism, and misandry are prominent features of his work. If you hate reading Chaucer, you understanding him well. He has ironically come to be known as the Father of English literature.